Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Except that no delegation went home, the London Naval Parley (TIME, Oct. 22) seemed last week to have reached the crack-up stage. The British Government, after flirting for weeks with all kinds of Japanese proposals, appeared at last to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis in his flat rejection of Japan's demand that the 5-5-3 naval ratio be scrapped to give Japan equality...
...Roosevelt owes his election largely to Catholics!" was the alarm sounded last year by Mexico City's independent daily El Universal Gráfico. Its editor thought he smelt a Papist in charge of Roosevelt patronage. Belief that the President, impelled by the Church, would crack down on Mexico's counter-clerical government was so strong that the official daily National took time to mourn for "Calvin Coolidge, one of the highest representatives of the human race. . . . Under [his] administration Mexico became better understood. . . . He had the good judgment to send us Mr. Morrow...
...action shots enterprisingly assembled and cleverly welded. Russian-born Léon Garganoff and some of his fellow émigrés in Paris started an unpretentious photographic laboratory called Société Anonyme Lianofilm, made enough profit to try a picture. Garganoff sent Nicholas Farkas, his crack cameraman, to Japan. Farkas made a close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films of naval maneuvers which were confiscated by the Japanese authorities. Upon Farkas' return to Paris, Garganoff borrowed a French warship, made...
Scene is a poor district of north Dublin during the 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief...
Died. Whitefoord Russell Cole, 60. president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; of acute indigestion; near Cave City, Ky., in his private car in which he was returning on one of his road's crack trains to his home in Louisville...